Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has paid tribute to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who is retiring on health grounds after 49 years in power.

Mr. Adams met President Castro during a controversial visit to Cuba in 2001.

The West Belfast MP said Tuesday's announcement marked "the end of an era in Cuban and Latin American politics."

"He leaves behind him a country with world class health and education systems and I wish him well in his retirement," he said.

Mr. Adams' 2001 trip to Cuba was criticised at the time by some US politicians, including Republican Congressman Peter King, a long time supporter of Sinn Fein, who described Fidel Castro as a "human rights violator."

While he was in Havana, Mr. Adams unveiled a monument in memory of 10 republican prison hunger-strikers who died in Northern Ireland in 1981......

Adams ran a socialist murder gang that attempted to impose its will on an unwilling majority by force, murder and terror. Of course, he’s sympathetic to Castro. Only the morons in the US Congress and the clueless fourth generation Irsh-Americans in Boston and Chicago would be surprised at such a development.

I can see the problem with the pic on the left, but whats wrong with teaching kids about large caliber rifles?

Well, as a gun enthusiast myself: there's nothing wrong with that at all!

Except that instead of simply learning about firearms safety or how to field strip, clean and reassemble a carbine, they are being indoctrinated in communist paramilitary "Defense of the Homeland against the Yanqui invader"-type crap. And "reading" is Dr. Marx, not Dr. Suess. Likewise, "history" and "science".

And "reading" is Dr. Marx, not Dr. Suess. Likewise, "history" and "science".

Well wait a minute.

If as many freepers seem to think the best way to bring back conservatism is to let Hillary! win, then why isn't the best way to instill conservative values in children to expose them to the reality of Marxism? /s

He leaves behind him a country with world class health and education systems and I wish him well in his retirement,” he said.
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LOL.....yeah you pub crawler, I ashamed you are Irish.

[snip] Castro’s son Antonio has revealed that his father will not recover from the illness which caused him to undergo surgery this summer, according to a new biography. The new book Without Fidel, by CBS television correspondent Ann Louise Bardach, reveals that Castro has permanently ceded effective power to his brother Raul - not on the temporary basis that Cuban authorities claim. It confirms that when the dictator disappeared from public view this summer he was undergoing treatment for an illness that is expected to kill him. [end]

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